[Hiring] Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Image Design Generation @Canva

Role Description

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Image Design Generation, you'll build and improve the models and systems behind how Canva generates images and design ingredients. You'll work across the full lifecycle, from model development through to production serving, with a current team focus on launching and optimising tiered generation methods so different user tiers get the right generation experience. The team sits at the intersection of research and productionisation: taking checkpoints and novel techniques from core research and turning them into shipped, user-facing capability. The pace is fast and iterative, quick experiments and fast learnings over long fixed research plans, and using the latest AI tools to move faster is part of how this team works. You'll take ownership of scoped projects end-to-end, from idea through to measurable impact in production.

• Design, develop, and deploy models and systems that generate and edit designs, working closely with ML engineers, backend, frontend, and product to ship features that feel effortless to use.
• Stay close to the latest deep learning and generative AI research, and turn promising techniques into shipped production features.
• Contribute to the team's work tiering generation methods across different user segments.
• Investigate and resolve quality, latency, or reliability issues in the generation serving path.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure and pipelines that get generation models into production and keep them running reliably at scale.
• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly, including to non-technical stakeholders, and share knowledge across the team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and shipping ML models in production.
• Comfortable across the stack, from model development through to the infrastructure that serves predictions at scale.
• Ability to take a scoped project from idea to shipped with minimal guidance.
• Highly autonomous and comfortable taking an idea and driving it to a proof of concept.
• Energised by a fast, iterative pace and happy to pivot rather than work a long fixed plan.
• Works well with other engineers and wants their work to show up in something real people use every day.

Requirements

• Deep experience with production image/design generation models and the infrastructure that serves them at Canva's scale.
• Exposure to how ML, product, and infra decisions intersect across the wider Generative Experience group.
• The chance to build the ownership and technical judgement that sets you up for career growth at Canva.

Benefits

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and support you personally.